Short Stories
Irwin Shaw
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Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Publisher:
Open Road Media
Open Road Media
DRM:
Watermark
Watermark
Publication Year:
2013
2013
ISBN-13:
9781480408111
Description:
<DIV><B>A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed <I>New Yorker</I> short story writer and #1 <I>New York Times</I>–bestselling novelist.</B></DIV><DIV><BR /> Irwin Shaw was a star of the <I>New Yorker</I>’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and “Main Currents in American Thought,” in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw’s writing —as demonstrated in these pages—maintains the  clear-eyed  moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher’s soul.<BR />  <DIV><I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.</I></DIV></DIV>